Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities

Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary

📁 Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities

✍ Matthew T. Lee (editor), Laura D. Kubzansky (editor), Tyler J. VanderWeele (edit 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

This edited volume focuses on both conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being. Leveraging insights across diverse disciplines, including psychology, economics, sociology, statistics, public health, theology, and philosophy, contributors consider the philosophical and theologic

Altruistic Reveries: Perspectives from t

📁 Altruistic Reveries: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences

✍ Basant K. Kapur, Kim-Chong Chong (auth.), Basant K. Kapur, Kim-Chong Chong (eds. 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English

Altruistic Reveries is a unique volume, which arises out of an Interdisciplinary Conference on Perspectives on Altruism from the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Centre for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, in October

Cultural Sustainability: Perspectives fr

📁 Cultural Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences

✍ Torsten Meireis (editor), Gabriele Rippl (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

If the political and social benchmarks of sustainability and sustainable development are to be met, ignoring the role of the humanities and social, cultural and ethical values is highly problematic. People’s worldviews, beliefs and principles have an immediate impact on how they act and should be st

Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspecti

📁 Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences

✍ Rinaldo F. Canalis (editor); Massimo Ciavolella (editor); Valeria Finucci (edito 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 De Gruyter 🌐 English

Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on culture is assessed and expressed in the partic

Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspecti

📁 Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences

✍ Rinaldo F. Canalis (editor); Massimo Ciavolella (editor); Valeria Finucci (edito 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 De Gruyter 🌐 English

Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on culture is assessed and expressed in the partic

Broadening the Scope of Wellbeing Scienc

📁 Broadening the Scope of Wellbeing Science: Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Flourishing and Wellbeing

✍ Andrew H. Kemp, Darren J. Edwards 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Palgrave Pivot 🌐 English

This book brings together leading researchers on wellbeing science to provide a multidisciplinary approach to psychological wellbeing with implications for the interconnected societal challenges we face today, including loneliness, neoliberalism, inequality and anthropogenic climate change. It